Abstract

LAZO AMADOR, Yaima; OTANO LAFFITTE, Gladys; MARIN MANSO, Gloria  and  GUTIERREZ ROJAS, Ángela. Divine proportion in patients with Class II Division I Syndrome. Rev Cubana Estomatol [online]. 2012, vol.49, n.2, pp.117-127. ISSN 0034-7507.

The beauty and the facial harmony have a decisive function in social relationships of man. The esthetic affection is the leading cause of consultation of patients to Orthodontics. Divine Proportion is being more and more studied having diagnostic and therapeutical aims related to the facial aesthetics. To assess the behavior of Divine Proportion in facial measurements in patients presenting with Class II Division I syndrome and its relation to sex a cross-sectional and descriptive study was conducted for 2008-2010 in the Orthodontics Department of the Stomatology Faculty of La Habana. The sample included 30 patients who fulfilled the inclusion criteria studying the facial measurements by frontal and in profile photos. Study demonstrated that the greater percentages were in the pairs related to the distance between the lateral edge of eyes and the lateral margin of the nose (66.7 %); the tragus basement ahd the lateral side of eye and from this one to nose tip and from this one to chin (63.3 %). Few patients showed the Divine Proportion in the study facial measurements without significant differences in its behavior in relation to sex.

Keywords : divine proportion; Class II Division I syndrome.

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